CVE-2002-0755

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier does not verify that a user is a member of the wheel group before granting superuser privileges, which could allow unauthorized users to execute commands as root.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 4.4-release, 4.5-release

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.php
http://www.osvdb.org/4893
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.php
http://www.osvdb.org/4893
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777

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